Consider that, today, more than 70% of Americans use social media—up from only 5% tallied in 2005, according to the Pew Research Center. A handful of key players in the space continue to rule. Social Media Examiner's "2017 Social Media Marketing Industry Report" revealed that the top platforms used by marketers are Facebook (94%), Twitter (68%), LinkedIn (56%), Instagram (54%), YouTube (45%), Pinterest (30%), and Snapchat (7%). So what's in stor for 2018?

A new iteration of Forbidden's professional video editing software, Forscene, will be released on Nov. 24 and will be immediately available to all clients of the post-production platform. The functionality introduced in this release enables new Avid workflows and aims to increase efficiencies on multitrack productions. Forscene says many of the new features were requested by longtime client Princess Productions.

Long-form broadcast clients often log and create rough cuts in Forscene and then move to Avid to complete their edits. This new feature means that clients can now move seamlessly between Avid and Forscene at any point during the offline edit.

Other noteworthy additions to Forscene's feature list include:

Support for up to 12 active video tracks and 24 audio tracks on the timeline

The ability to concurrently see all video tracks in a sequence during playback - and to toggle between this multidisplay grid view and the usual top-down view of video layers